Bicycle-support.



W0. MU,383. Patented Jan. 2, I900.

W. H. HART, JR.

BICYCLE SUPPORT.

(Application filedMax. G, 1899J (No Modal.)

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BlYCLE-SUPPHT.

SPECIIC.WION forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,383, dated J'anuary 2, 1900.

Application filed March 61 1899. Serial No. 707,917. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HART, Jr., a oitizen of the United States, residing in the city and eounty of Philadelphia,State of Penn sylvania, have invented a new and useiul 11nprovement in Bicycle-Supports, which im provement is fully set forth in the following specifieation and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an improved construction of a bicycle-support in which the latter is journaled in the side pieces of the pedal-frame, the entremities of said support being deflected in the present instance inwardly, so as to abut With the top of the pedalfra1ne, which latter forzns a stop for the retention of the support in its operative position.

ltfurthe *oonsists in the provision of means for maintaining the legs of said support in a lateral or horizontal position relative to the pedal-frame, said legs being held in the proper position betvvcen a pair of longitudinally-extending ridges on each side of the pedalframe.

It further consists of novel details of construction, ail as Will be hereinatter fully set forth, and particnlarly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a bicycle-support embodying my invention, showing also a pedal or pedal-frame to which the same is applicable. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of the bicyclesupport and its adjuncts, the same being shown in closed or inoperative position. Fig. 3 represents an end elevation, partly in section, showing the manner in which the extremities of the legs of the support abut against the top of the pedal-frame when the support is in operative position, as seen in Fig. 1.

-Si1nilar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bicycle-support, the same consisting of the legs- B, which at their upper extremities are deflected rearwardly, as at 0, and then bout inwardly to form the members D, the latter serving as stops and adapted to abut With the adjacent edges of the pedal-trame E when the support is in operative position.

F designates journals attached to the legs B and projecting inwardly, so as to engage the openings G in the side pieces of the pedaltrame, whereby bearings are formed for said legs.

Il designates ridges which are located on the exterior surface of the side pieces of the pedal-frarne, between which ridges the legs B are adapted to be sprung when the support is in inoperative position. Tl1e extremities K of the ridges H which are nearest to the journals F are slightly tapering, so that the legs B ride readily thereupon and over the same when it is desired to turn the support from the position seen in Fig. 1 into inoperative position, as seen in Fig. 2.

The operation is as follows: Tire parts normally appear as seen in Fig. 9, in which po-- sition the legs B are retained in proximity to the side pieces of the pedal-frame E by reason of their resiliency, said legs being fnrther prevented from intertering with the foot et the rider by reason of the ridges Il. .Vhen it is desired to turn the support from the position seen in Fig. 2 into operative position, as seen in Fig. 1, it is only necossary to exert a pull on the support in the direction of the arrow a, as seen in Fig. 2, suificient to cause the legs t0 ride past the lower ridgo Il, after which the support can be readily turned into the position seen in Fig. 1, the ends D theroof abntting against the adjacent portions of the pedal-frame E. Vhen it is desired to place the support in inoperative position, it is only necessary to turn the same in the direction indicated by the arrow b, the legs B springing over the lower ridge Il into the position seen in Fig. 2, in which they are held between the pairs of ridges II on either side of the pedal franco.

It Will of course be evident that changes may be made by those slrilled in the art which will corne within the scope of my invention, and I do not therefore desire to be limitod in everyinstance to the exact construction here in shown and desoribed.

Having thus doseribed my invention, what I olaim as new, and desire to socure by lletters Patent, is

1. A bioyclesnpport consisting of a pedal franco, and a1eg having a journal which is mounted on said frame, an upward extension 'deflected so as to contact With the adjacent edges of said frame, when rhe support is in 10 operative position.

WILLIAM H. HART, J E.

Vitnesses:

J OHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. C. WIEDERSHEIM.' 

